SMART, SEARCH-ENABLED WEB ERROR PAGES

• US 20100106571A1
• Filed: 10/23/2008
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: HAHN, MARK, CANEL, FABRICE, CATORCINI, ALESSANDRO P., MICHAELS, AMY J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,825,740 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.400
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements

Abstract

Embodiments of our technology provide a method, system, and media for presenting relevant information incident to attempting to present information that is unavailable by way of a website. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a request to present a desired web page, determining that the desired web page is unavailable for presentation, determining search criteria associated with the request, dynamically generating a second web page that includes search results that were obtained based on the search criteria, and presenting the second web page on a display device.

Claims

1. A method of presenting relevant information incident to attempting to present unpresentable information associated with a website, the method comprising:

receiving a request to present a desired web page;

determining that the desired web page is unavailable for presentation;

gleaning search criteria associated with the request;

dynamically generating a second web page that includes search results that were obtained based on the search criteria; and

presenting the second web page on a display device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is received by way of a hyperlink.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining that the web page is unavailable for presentation includes determining that the hyperlink does not point to the desired web page.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein determining that the web page is unavailable for presentation includes determining that the web page exists but is denoted to not be presented to a requester.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein gleaning the search criteria includes analyzing one or more of:

at least a portion of the hyperlink;

prior content that was associated with the desired web page;

a requesting webpage from which the request was received;

metadata associated with said requesting webpage; and

a requesting device that initiated the request.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein analyzing the at least a portion of the hyperlink includes determining one or more keywords from the at least a portion of the hyperlink.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein analyzing the prior content includes analyzing a set of stored data that includes information related to the desired web page.

8. One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing presenting relevant information incident to attempting to present unpresentable information associated with a website, the method comprising:

receiving an indication that a user has requested by way of a hyperlink to view desired content that is not presentable;

determining search criteria from one or more of,

(1) the hyperlink,

(2) the desired content and

(3) a requesting webpage that provided the indication;

retrieving a set of search results based on the search criteria; and

instead of presenting the desired content, presenting on a display device representations associated with the set of search results.

9. The media of claim 8, wherein the desired content was previously reachable by way of a first web page.

10. The media of claim 9, wherein determining search criteria from the desired content includes referencing a dataset that includes indexed data associated with the desired content, thereby resulting in an indexed dataset.

11. The media of claim 10, wherein retrieving the set of search results includes referencing one or more of a plurality of sources, including:

locally stored data;

other websites besides those associated with the hyperlink;

a content-management platform;

an advertisement provider;

a general-purpose search engine; and

a designated website.

12. The media of claim 11, wherein the presenting includes presenting a dynamically generated webpage that includes the representations.

13. The media of claim 12, wherein the representations include one or more of:

the set of search results; and

content associated with the search results.

14. The media of claim 8, further comprising presenting a set of advertisements that were identified by way of the search criteria.

15. One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing presenting relevant information incident to attempting to present unpresentable information associated with a website, the method comprising:

receiving a request to present desired web content that is unable to be presented;

determining aspects of information that were associated with the web content;

constructing a query to search for target information that should be relevant based on the aspects of information;

applying the query to a dataset;

receiving a set of query results incident to applying the query;

dynamically generating a presentation based on the query results; and

presenting the presentation on a display device.

16. The media of claim 15, wherein the aspects include one or more of:

the desired web content itself;

a content index derived from the web content;

a determined type of data that was the web content, wherein the type of data inlcudes one or more of,

(1) an audio file;

(2) a video file;

(3) a game;

(4) a news article; and

(5) a personalized site.

17. The media of claim 15, wherein the dataset includes a database local to a requesting device that initiated the request.

18. The media of claim 15, wherein the results are scoped according to a predefined scope.

19. The media of claim 15, wherein the presenting includes presenting the presentation instead of the web content.